Quotes About Negotiation

If we can deter the Soviet Union, if we can deter North Korea, why on earth can't we deter Iran?

When President Ronald Reagan negotiated some significant arms reduction deals with the then-Soviet Union, he was considered a real hero, someone who was advocating for peace.

That's what unions do. They can get money, they can get support, they can get manpower.

My problem with unions is they breed mediocrity.

Hey, I'm a former union president myself and also an attorney that represented a lot of unions.

Large corporations and unions know the power of being big enough to bargain for better rates.

The dissolution of the trade unions was in the air then.

I'm not going to stop beating up on the unions.

Public unions are big money.

I just think the most important aspect in being able to have a productive relationship between the teachers' unions and the districts and the states that they're dealing with is that the person sitting across the table from them should not have received the largest campaign contributions from the teachers' union itself.

Full access to the single market is what businesses and trade unions want.

It also seems that the Afghans themselves want to avail themselves of this opportunity and all recognize that the UN is uniquely qualified to help bring them together.

Working with Russia, we worked with Iran. Are they our friends? You have to take each situation uniquely.

In 'The One Who Falls,' three women and three men, in everyday clothes, negotiate each other while moving, often in unison, on a giant spinning tile.

The life of states cannot, any more than the life of individuals, be conditioned by the force and the will of a unit, however powerful, but by the consensus of a group, which must one day include all states.

We work well together with the United Kingdom - particularly, perhaps, when we talk about new rules for the European Union.

We must never relent in our efforts to resolve conflicts through diplomacy and through all of the instruments bestowed by the Charter of the United Nations.

The Palestinians want a state, but they have to give peace in return. What they're trying to do in the United Nations is to get a state without giving Israel peace or giving Israel peace and security. And I think that's, that's wrong. That should not succeed. That should, that should fail.

There is no such thing as the United Nations.

The federal government of Nigeria has always preferred to talk to bona fide Boko Haram leaders about the release of the Chibok girls, but we must have a credible person or persons that will intervene, preferably United Nations or NGOs.

I'm a career diplomat. I spent 30 years as a diplomat, out of which seven years as foreign minister. I've always believed in the United Nations as a centre of multilateralism and multilateral diplomacy.

The United Nations has become a place where many countries seek to achieve a lynching of the United States by resolution.

The main thing that endears the United Nations to member governments, and so enables it to survive, is its proven capacity to fail, and to be seen to fail.

The right course is for the Palestinians and the Israelis to sit down at the table together. The Palestinians need to recognize that the course to the two-state solution is not through the United Nations or through the United States or through anyone else, but through a face to face series of negotiations with the Israelis.